Job 3:12

Wherefore were knees ready to receive me? and for what purpose were breasts there that I might suck?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

In Context

11Why did I not die [the moment I issued] from the womb, and [why] was I not born merely to perish at once?

13For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest,

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Cross References

Genesis 30:3And she said, Behold, [here is] my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

Isaiah 66:12For thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will extend to her peace like a river, and like a rapid stream the glory of nations, that ye may suck: upon the arm shall ye be borne, and upon knees shall ye be dandled.

Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20

Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →

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